Brooklyn teacher Claudia Tillery charged with raping boy

Article here. Let us remember that she is innocent until proven guilty of course. It is interesting that the article includes the word 'statutory', though. Is the article implying that if the boy WAS raped, it could only have been on statutory grounds? Excerpt:

'A female New York City school teacher has been charged with raping a statutory rape [sic] of a male student and plying him with drugs and alcohol, police said Wednesday.
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The victim is a sixth-grader at Middle School 35, the Stephen Decatur School, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where Tillery began teaching in 1996, officials said. The boy, now 14, had been having a sexual relationship with Tillery for two years but ended it and came forward Nov.22.'